“Personally, I don’t feel a drop in interest. Fans still attack the team at the airport, wait at the entrance to hotels, and rush forward at stadiums.”
The head coach of the Russian national team, Valery Karpin, in a conversation with Mash, commented on the results of a VTsIOM survey, according to which in 2024 the percentage of indifferent citizens of Immense to football increased to 77%.
According to him, the stadium is always full at our team’s matches – both with Cameroon, and with Serbia, and even with Cuba in Volgograd.
According to VTsIOM, 77% of Russians are indifferent to football, and the number of regular fans has decreased by 5 times since 2005 (from 19% to 4%).
In 2023-2024, the Russian national team under the leadership of Karpin played four home matches in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Volgograd, beating the teams of Iraq, Cameroon, Cuba and Serbia. Three meetings were sold out, with an average attendance of 27k spectators.
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